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GuardianSep 27Preview

The Guardian view on Manchester City: a strange kind of glory | Editorial

If a guilty verdict on multiple counts of financial misreporting is upheld against the club, its achievements in the modern era will be forever tainted In surveys ranking the Premier League’s greatest moments, football supporters regularly give pride of place to Sergio Agüero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City in 2012. Scored in injury time on the last day of the season, Agüero’s strike against Queens Park Rangers delivered the first league title for City since the 1960s. Knocking their historic rivals Manchester United into second place, it also signalled a new era in which the club replaced United as the dominant force in the English game.“Aguerooooooo!” – the incredulous single-word response from the match commentator Martin Tyler – has entered football folklore. But an asterisk may now be needed at the end of all those Os. Reports that an independent panel has found Manc

EditorialManchester CityPremier League

GuardianSep 27Preview

Nor’easter storm batters US east coast with heavy winds and power outages

At least one person killed and nearly 150,000 households lost electricity from North Carolina to New EnglandA strong, deadly storm known as a nor’easter battered the US’s east coast over the weekend, bringing power outages, flooding, damaging winds and hazardous ocean conditions.Trees and power lines were knocked down across the region, at least one person was killed and hundreds of thousands were left without electricity as officials cautioned that conditions could deteriorate further. Continue reading...

Marina DunbarUS weatherUS news

GuardianSep 27Preview

The kindness of strangers: Two helicopter pilots flew down low to wave to my three-year-old son – he was beside himself with joy

My son adores helicopters, so we waved as hard as possible as it flew past. Then it suddenly looped and came back aroundRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesMy sister lives in Ukraine; I live in Australia. We had gone five long years without seeing each other when we finally reunited during a trip to Los Angeles. One day we took my three-year-old son to the beach and spent the afternoon catching up.We had a lot of conversations about people and kindness that day. I told her how I had noticed a softer side to men since having a son. As a woman, you’re often wary of construction workers, for example – what might they say to me when I walk past? But now when I pass a building site with my son, the workers often let him play with their radio, or beep a tractor to make him laugh. It was very heartwarming and gave me a whole new perspective on the other sex. Continue reading...

Lydia, as told to Katie CunninghamAustralian lifestyleFamily

NYTSep 27Preview

As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind

The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.

Adam Satariano and Cecilia KangArtificial IntelligenceComputers and the Internet

GuardianSep 27Preview

Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI

‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look like. The gathered technologists were drawn to the idea of building a small nation-state dedicated to the endeavor, Reich recalls in “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot it”.When Reich asked whether this state would be a democracy, he got a cool no. “Democracy is too slow, and it holds science back,” he was told. “To optimize for science, we need a beneficent technocrat in charge.” Continue reading...

Eduardo PorterAI (artificial intelligence)Technology

GuardianSep 27Preview

Trump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claimsElection experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting.With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by former US federal government officials. Continue reading...

George ChidiDonald TrumpUS politics

GuardianSep 27Preview

‘Viscerally dedicated to social issues’: behind Lula’s drive to win final term in Brazil’s crunch election

Longtime friend tells of president’s obsession with social justice and fears for country’s future under another Bolsonaro presidencyOn 1 January 2023, a few hours after being sworn in for his third stint as Brazil’s president, a ravenous Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sneaked away from a celebratory cocktail party packed with politicians and diplomats to grab a snack with one of his oldest friends.“This is your penultimate term,” that friend, the Dominican theologian and writer Frei Betto, recalls telling Lula as the pair chewed the fat in a back room of the foreign ministry in Brasília. Continue reading...

Tom Phillips Rio de JaneiroLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaJair Bolsonaro

GuardianSep 26Preview

Blind date: ‘I do wish I hadn’t stepped on that dog – but she assured me it was OK’

Miklos, 25, a PhD student, meets Minnie, 23, who works in film productionWhat were you hoping for? To take a step outside my comfort zone. To meet the love of my life. Continue reading...

Guardian StaffDatingRelationships

GuardianSep 25Preview

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore review – flashes of humanity and bafflingly vindictive love songs

(Republic)This four-track addition to a critically maligned album works hard to remind fans what they love about Swift, with some sweet highs and galling lowsOne downside of turning your release strategies into scavenger hunts and layering clues within your work is that it invites enormous amounts of scrutiny about your potential motive. When Taylor Swift announced an expanded edition of last year’s critically maligned The Life of a Showgirl this week, subtitled The Encore, many fans instantly suspected one of two things: that it was designed to remind Grammy members of Showgirl’s existence during their voting period to determine next year’s nominees, or to oust country ingenue Ella Langley from her record-breaking US No 1 run.If that sounds cynical, it’s also worth remembering that when Swift announced Showgirl last year, she said that unlike her previous album, The Tortured Poets Depar

Laura SnapesTaylor SwiftMusic

GuardianSep 25Preview

‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film

Catherine Corless’s exposure of almost 800 infant deaths at a home led by nuns prompted Neeson to bring the story to screenLiam Neeson still remembers his shock and shame when he read a New York Times article about the mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway.It was 2017 and the article chronicled the campaign by Catherine Corless, an amateur local historian, to expose abuse and neglect by Irish nuns that led to hundreds of children being buried in a mass, unmarked grave. Continue reading...

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentFilmIreland

GuardianSep 24Preview

Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulityNewcastle University is facing a backlash from conservationists over the appointment of the heir to an Indian oil and gas fortune who runs a controversial mega-zoo as a professor of sustainability.The university announced that Anant Ambani had been given a professorship of practice for “his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship” and “significant contributions to advancing a more sustainable future”. Continue reading...

Rachel Hall and Patrick GreenfieldNewcastle UniversitySustainability

BBCSep 23Preview

Indians are discovering the thrill of shopping without paying

Dopamine sites mimic shopping’s thrill without the spending, turning the ritual of consumption into a digital game.

GuardianSep 23Preview

Indian billionaire’s payments firm plots biggest London flotation in years

Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock marketNils Pratley: Does this mark the end of London’s listing drought? Not yetA payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian billionaire has announced its intention to float on the struggling London Stock Exchange.Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa, is planning one of the biggest UK listings in years, in a boost for the shrinking London market that has faced a string of recent departures. Continue reading...

Joanna PartridgeLondon Stock ExchangeIPOs

GuardianSep 22Preview

‘What we have is unique’: the Indian craftsmanship behind global luxury fashion

Generations of artisans from Mumbai to Lucknow have shaped the world’s most coveted designs. Plus, the gen Z memes giving classic Bollywood a new lifeThe zardozi embroidery on a Dior dress, the T-strap leather sandals at a Prada show, the mirror-work technique used on a Fendi bag – for decades, the skill of Indian artisans has been an invisible force behind some of the world’s most coveted fashion.Now, that work is beginning to claim its own place in the spotlight, and the Mumbai-based textile and embroidery atelier Chanakya International is at the forefront. Continue reading...

Niha MasihWorld newsIndia

BBCSep 5Preview

Reform UK winded by donations row as insiders call for shift in approach

Nigel Farage's admirers in the party are calling for a stronger operation as the party aims for power.

Al JazeeraSep 27Preview

Alleged rape on campus sparks violent protest at Indian university

Student protests at an Indian university have turned violent following claims that a female student was raped on campus.

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NYTSep 25Preview

Millions in Indonesia Breathe In Toxic Haze From Months of Wildfires

For months, millions of people have been living under a stifling blanket of toxic haze, fueled by a punishing drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern.

Muktita Suhartono and Ulet IfansastiIndonesiaBorneo (Indonesia)